Oh, 院/-in (which means something like "academy/institution") is also used for many major or more important temples. Our root temple in Japan, the temple of Niwa Zenji, is the 洞慶院 (Tôkei-in), which became a Soto temple in the 15th century. Although today only a small temple with a few resident priests in training, it is officially ranked as a “Daijuu Zenrin,” one of the “ten great monasteries” of Soto Zen in Japan, and a “Senmon Sodo,” a temple specifically designated for the training of novice priests, and has been the source of a line of Abbots of Dogen's temple, Eihei-ji.
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** Little known trivia fact: Shunryu Suzuki, later of San Francisco but also from the same region of Japan as the Tokei-in, was the Shike, one of the main monastery officials, of the Tokei-in for some years from 1947.
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Gassho, Jundo
** Little known trivia fact: Shunryu Suzuki, later of San Francisco but also from the same region of Japan as the Tokei-in, was the Shike, one of the main monastery officials, of the Tokei-in for some years from 1947.
I would be a tiny bit disappointed if this wasn't the official name honestly, it's awesome
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